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AP Photo/David J. Phillip You thought Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago were bad, but it’s actually the “Big Easy” that is the most dangerous, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis released Friday. New Orleans’ homicide rate is up a whopping 141 percent since the beginning of the year compared to the same period in 2021; meanwhile, shootings are up 100 percent, carjackings 210 percent, and armed robberies 25 percent. It is the highest murder rate the city has seen since the dark days of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New Orleans has the highest homicide rate of any major city so far this year, overwhelming police and motivating residents to leave. “We’re in a crisis of crime and a crisis of confidence.” https://t.co/vZdsYum2QT — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 17, 2022 The Journal brings us the sobering statistics: New Orleans had the highest homicide rate of any major city so far this year, with about 41 homicides per 100,000 residents, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the organization’s data, collected from most of the nation’s largest law-enforcement departments. The homicide rate was 11.5 in Chicago, 4.8 in Los Angeles and 2.4 per 100,000 in New York City for the same period. What is going on here?
While it’s tempting to blame the city’s crime woes on “defund the police,” in this case, it’s more complicated than that. Hurricane Katrina did enormous damage to the city’s infrastructure, causing major instability and violence. In response, then-Mayor Mitch Landrieu called for a two-year police department hiring freeze, which the city has still not fully recovered from. He also called in the Justice Department, leading to the city signing a Consent Decree , which reads: The NOPD Consent Decree is the result of an extensive investigation of the NOPD conducted […]
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